Marcia Selsor

About Me

BFA 1970 in Ceramics,Phila. University of the Arts with Bill Daley, Paula Winokur, and Petras Vaskys, MFA 1974 in Ceramics,SIU Carbondale with Nick Vergette. Retired in 2000 as a Professor Emerita after 25 years of teaching University level ceramics at Montana State University-Billings. In 2006 relocated to Brownsville, Tx. She received 2 Fulbright Scholars Awards: Spain in '85-86 documenting ethnic origins (Iberian, Roman, Celtic, Moorish) of Spanish folk potters traditions, kilns, wheels, pottery forms, in 48 pottery centers all over the country and Uzbekistan '94 taught History of World Ceramics, studio ceramics, worked with the Architectural Restoration Dept. at the Tashkent Institute of the Arts. Also visited many sites of Islamic Ceramic Architecture from the 10-16th centuries including Samarkund; lectured at the University in Bukhara, Tashkent University, numerous schools and the National Symposium of Ceramics teachers. Taught at UH Manoa in Spring 2005 as visiting Director of the Ceramics Program and UT-Brownsville 2011-2012.

Juror for the International exhibitions: Teapots, Seapots in Portugal 2011; Small Art Objects, "In Motion", Vallauris France; 2013 as well as NCECA K-12 2014, From the Ground Up 2015, Las Cruces, NM. Recent exhibitions include A.I.R. Vallauris Oct. 2012,: 43rd Annual International Show in 2015 at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, 2014 Texas Six-Pack show,and won a merit Award at the San Antonio Potters' Guild All Texas Competition in 2015. Solo show of Recent Work at Galeria 409 in Brownsville, History in the Making VIII at the Firehouse gallery in Rochester, NY. . Served on the NCECA Board of Directors 1990-1991, Potters Council Board of Directors from 2006-2011 and as President 2008-2009 and Immediate Past President 2009- 2011. Re-elected to the Potters Council Board 2014-2017.

Over the past four decades she has taught workshops in Spain, Italy, France, Canada, and across the United States including Hawaii. European workshops have been ongoing since 1995 combining the trip to include as many cultural experiences and study-touring as possible and hands-on clay experience. She began teaching St. Mary's College 1971 in Albany, NY, Raku workshops in 1972 at Grailville , Ohio and 1973 a slip marbling workshop at Cheltenham Art Center, Pa. Recent workshops:'11 Throwing and Large Slabs, molds and tar paper forms, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell,NM; '12 Cone 6 Reduction Workshop in Corpus Christi Tx., Masters Class- Raku workshop in Vallauris, France 2012, Alternative Firing Techniques Potters Council Conference in Minneapolis Oct. '13, Potters Council Tuscany 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Architectural Ceramics with Stephani Stephenson at La Meridiana 2014.February, 2015 Alternative Firing Art Space of South Padre Island.

She is a Charter member of Potters Council since 2001 and a member of the American Craft Council, NCECA, Texas Clay Art Association and a Lifetime member of the Fulbright Association. Ceramic Arts Daily recently released a dvd "Expanding the Potential of Raku Kiln with Marcia Selsor" http://ceramicartsda...-the-raku-kiln/

June 14-27, 2015 Potters Council, Tuscany V This is a group tour with a studio segment at La Meridiana.We will visit sites in Florence including the Vasari Corridor to the Uffizi and Bargello, Faenza's International Museum of ceramic Art and many potters studios, Ravenna's UNESCO World Heritage sites, Volterra Etruscan Museum and Roman Ruins, Siena. Space is usually limited to 20 potters and 6 non-potters. Includes Obvara firing and Raku Dolce http://ceramicartsda...s-in-tuscany-v/,

Sept.. 11-14 Las Cruces, New Mexico at the NM State University Alternative Firing including ^1 soda and terra cotta, saggar, obvara, and raku. Friday at 4pm Juror's lecture and Awards Ceremony "From the Ground Up". Two days of Firing, unload soda kiln on Monday am and a lecture at 11 about the Fulbright Experience.http://www.pottersgu...x.php?page_id=6

Ceramics on the global scale has been my major interest since I began working in Clay. I lived near several great museums growing up, Now that I have traveled I appreciate how ceramics mirrors the development ov civilizations. Fascinating world.
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